In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

Month: May 2016

I admire Jeremy Varon, Matt Daloiso and other participants in Witness against Torture, a movement that protests endless imprisonment and torture at Guantanamo. Jeremy wrote to me about Daniel Berrigan’s memorial: “Jeremy Varon here, the academic (new school) / activist (torture stuff) from New York. I enjoyed greatly the Berrigan remembrnaces, especially …

joe lenski and why initial exit polls are a test for fair elections in the usa By Alan Gilbert. Introduction: Two reforms, suggested by Lenski’s interviews, which would make elections fair. Firstly, an immediate reform: the US State Department/AID uses initial exit polling abroad to test the fairness of elections. This is exit polling done …

This piece, now revised, makes two decisive points which are not elsewhere in the literature:1)that the U.S. State Department uses initial exit polling as a test for the fairness of elections in 14 cases abroad. Initial exit polling is an easy check for fraud. 2) that in the US and in the US alone, the Edison Group …

Please join the the Department of English and the Creative Writing program at the University of Denver to hear the great poet, Raúl Zurita. When: Monday, May 9th / 7pm Where: The University of Denver Sturm Hall / Room 454 Raúl Zurita is one of Latin America’s most celebrated and controversial poets. After Augusto Pinochet’s …

Introduction: Two reforms, suggested by Lenski’s interviews, which would make elections fair 1. An immediate reform: the US State Department/AID uses initial exit polling abroad to test the fairness of elections. This is exit polling done by employees of a poll company talking with randomly selected voters as they leave the …

Listen here to the audio of my interview yesterday morning on KGNU with Jim Banks. *** I am shortly going to put up an analysis and critique of two recent interviews with Joe Lenski.. Lens is the Executive Vice Present and spokesperson for the Edison Group which has a monopoly on exit …

I will be on KGNU – FM 88.5, AM 1390; outside Colorado, google KGNU – with Jim Banks at 8:30 Wednesday morning. The nucleus or test point for identifying electoral fraud, as we discuss, is exit-polling (an exit polling/recorded “vote” discrepancy far outside the margin of error of the poll). This point is …

In 2008, Nate Silver did a reasonable job predicting the actual results in different states, combining and assessing the work of other pollsters (he doesn’t do polling, himself). He was then lionized in the commercial press, and published a column in the New York Times. On November 4, 2008, on 538 blog, …

I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).